News goes social

links for 2008-08-31

• Official Google Reader Blog: Read what they read
  Is this a great idea or just another form of guest blogging?
  (tags: journalism2.0 google)

links for 2008-08-30

• Washington Post goes live via cell phone
  Interesting claim that this may be the first time live, mobile-captured video been used by MSM
  (tags: washingtonpost mobile)
• Lessons on Blogging from Jon Stewart - O'Reilly Radar
  Tim O'Reilly: "What a way forward for all of those trying to understand the future of news! Point of view fused with fact checking, bluntness and informality fused with ruthless editing, a humanistic vision that acts as a filter to make sure that the stories covered actually matter!"
  (tags: blogging blogging_versus_journalism jon_stewart)
• Obama's Speech and the DNC: Online Experiences
  Amy Gahran rounds up interesting use of Twitter, Qik and Kite, amongst others
  (tags: politics twitter qik)
• Yahoo Mash: When getting social isn't enough
  Interesting CNET take on the state of play with social networks.
  (tags: social_media facebook jaiku myspace)
• VG News makes its UGC tool available to all-comers
  This Norwegian website has been leading the way in UGC content for some time and now is setting itself up as an outsource department for other sites, including The Sun
  (tags: user-generated_content VG)
• The scientist who started the MMR hoax faces the GMC - but who will hold the media to account, asks Ben Goldacre | Society | The Guardian
  MMR scare only affected UK but for years France suffered from belief that Hepatitis B vaccine caused MS.
  (tags: health)

links for 2008-08-28

• Has Yahoo! Buzz Lived Up to the Buzz? - ReadWriteWeb
  Yes and no. Concludes that Buzz is an awkward mix between MSM and social news but one that cannot be ignored by publishers.
  (tags: yahoo social_media digg)
• DNC Exposes a Gap in the New Media Ecosystem
  Web2.0h...really: "Nobody I could locate is making an intellectually honest attempt to select the highest quality stuff and make it available in a single place."
  (tags: journalism2.0)
• Libel and Defamation law for Bloggers
  Itemises the '10-point Reynolds test'
  (tags: legal)

links for 2008-08-28

• Has Yahoo! Buzz Lived Up to the Buzz? - ReadWriteWeb
  Yes and no. Concludes that Buzz is an awkward mix between MSM and social news but one that cannot be ignored by publishers.
  (tags: yahoo social_media digg)
• DNC Exposes a Gap in the New Media Ecosystem
  Web2.0h...really: "Nobody I could locate is making an intellectually honest attempt to select the highest quality stuff and make it available in a single place."
  (tags: journalism2.0)
• Libel and Defamation law for Bloggers
  Itemises the '10-point Reynolds test'
  (tags: legal)

links for 2008-08-26

• Moderation a Virtue? How 10 Top Sites Handle Online Comments
  (tags: moderation)

links for 2008-08-23

• Examining The Internet's Top Blogs: What We Can Learn From Their Success
  SEOmoz has an extrordinary piece of analysis showing, that more than three-quarters of the top 100 (?) have one or two-word names, and that 80 per cent have more than one primary writer
  (tags: metrics blogging top10)
• Global Neighbourhoods: 7 Tips for new Twitter Users
  From Shel Israel
  (tags: twitter)
• PR 2.0: Introducing The Conversation Prism
  Very pretty visual pulling together all of social media
  (tags: visuals top10)
• 5 Ways to Imitate the 10 Most Popular Blogs
  Takes Technorati top 10 and concludes they all have the following: 1) Frequent posts, 2) Group behind them (follows from 1, 3) News-based, 4) Visual, 5) Got an attitude (or distinct style/tone)tone
  (tags: howto top10 blogging)
• Yes, people will post news, but perhaps not when YOU ask: SteveOuting.com
  Steve Outing: "Perhaps instead of sinking a pile of money into their own citJ platform, they should instead be developing means to tap into the external venues where people already are sharing their news..."
  (tags: citizen_journalism journalism2.0)
• Howto: Geo-tagging photos for an easy map mashup.
  Kevin Anderson explains how he got his Nokia N82 to geo-tag photos and how he used this to ge-tag his Flickr feed and to display photos on Google Maps
  (tags: mapping journalism2.0)
• 11 Ways to Open a Post and Get Reader Engagement
  Interesting, particularly the likening of blog posting to copy writing.
  (tags: howto blgging)

links for 2008-08-19

• Adapting Brands To The Networked World
  Best guide I seen so far to how Internet has changed how marketing works and what it means for brands (admirably short)
  (tags: visuals top10 social_media)
• Why Blogs Need To Be Social - GigaOM
  More on the notion that personal blogs could become the glue that holds together personal publishing and social networking
  (tags: wordpress blogging social_media checkitout top10)
• Topic Pages to Be Hub of New BusinessWeek Site - NYTimes.com
  “Advertisers want you to prove engagement,” said Keith Fox, president of BusinessWeek. “Ordinary social media are too broad to draw ads, but we can sell display ads reaching a specific audience on electronics or cars or medical devices.”
  (tags: businessweek topics aggregation top10)
• BBC News in-line text links trial out in the wild
  (tags: apture checkitout)
• The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type - ReadWriteWeb
  (tags: wordpress social_media)

YouTube annotations

Must have missed the announcement but having just uploaded the family holiday video to YouTube discovered that you can now add labels, speech bubbles and 'highlights' very easily by using YouTube annotations -- tremendous fun and makes up for some of the shortcomings of video -- adding the context.